Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Django Unchained, may feature several signifiers of an ultramodern slave narrative mixed with spaghetti Western bravado — bloody gunfights; n-word-spouting plantation ...
The truth behind the myths America still protects.
Nearly 30 students sat watching clips depicting the kidnapping that occuring during the slave trade, while narrators in the movies spoke of “slaves packed like sardines” in ships and how “new men ...
For nations, like people, distant memory of trauma can be submerged and repressed but never extinguished. It surfaces in words, in politics and sometimes in the movies. In the middle of Steven ...
When I saw the first trailer for Free State of Jones, I knew I was not going to like it. White guy leads rebellion of poor whites and runaway blacks in the Civil War? I expected another white-savior ...